4 Responses to lookidrewablackpersoni’mnotracist

I’m pretty sure that is about as close as a POC is going to get making it into the comic with any facetime.

It seems that yaoi and other shitty genres like it don’t put POCs in their stories because it’s so ingrained in the attitude that only soft, pasty little white boys can be pretty and nobody else can. And IF there is a person of colour…well, they get to be a servant! Or a side character! Yaaay, aren’t they lucky to even be acknowledged?

But I think they made it considerably worse by shoehorning the ONLY people of colour in the comic to serve the beautiful white boys. But it’s okay because THE OTHER SERVANT IS ASIAN. IT’S SO FUCKING DIVERSE GUYS.

I have the theory that the reason why people of color aren’t a frequent feature of yaoi is because yaoi was birthed in Japan, and we all know how much the Japanese love foreigners.
Also since the majority of those who jack it to yaoi are pasty white girls, who either don’t think about or don’t care to add POC into their stories.

It really pisses me off too because it isn’t supposed to be Victorian London it’s a fantasy world based vaguely in Victorian times. Claiming, “OH BUT YOU WEREN’T GOING TO FIND MANY POC IN EUROPE DURING VICTORIAN TIMES” may be true TO A DEGREE. However it’s a fantasy world BASED on that. Prostitution can be legal, people can have rainbow colored pubes, they all know what OCD is, but you can’t have a POC prostitute or John besides Ms cheekbones in the latest page?

That to me is very telling of their mind-set which is pretty much, “I CAN’T FAP TO DARKIES”

Sure these characters are background one time characters with no dialog who won’t show up again who’s only purpose is to make the white people look more rich and powerful. But it makes us diverse if they’re a black and ASIAN! DON’T FORGOT HOW 1/2 THE AUTHORS IS NON-WHITE SO THERE’S NO WAY THIS COULD BE MISINTERPRETED AS A VERY BAD WAY TO HANDLE CRITICISM AND PUBLIC RELATIONS!